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	Reel Criticism - Stephen Dorff in FearDotCom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"FearDotCom" succeeds at one thing, and one thing only, which is the creation of an all encompassing atmosphere from beginning to end.
		The remainder of "FearDotCom" is an exercise in madness, that madness being anyone's attempt to actually make any sort of sense out of this attempt at a logically strung together plotline.
		The images contained in "FearDotCom" may only be of the liking to people who enjoy things such as heavy bondage and the like, if this type of activity does not interest you there are great portions of this film which are simply not going to sit right with you.
	www.reelcriticism.com /reviews/review_feardotcom.html (1029 words)

	feardotcom
		Feardotcom, a cheapjack foreign-shot film (Luxembourg and Montreal double for New York City) distributed by the formerly prestigious Warner Bros., is another one of those freak shows that pretend to denounce misogynistic crime while showing us as much of it as the R rating will allow.
		Watching Feardotcom is often like being splashed with sewage by a Super-Soaker.
		At its core is the tired device of the little girl trying to communicate with the living and get revenge on her murderer, which might be nice if we hadn't seen it in The Sixth Sense and Stir of Echoes, to name two.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/feardotcom.html (589 words)

	TheMovieBoy Review: FearDotCom (2002)
		With 1999's "House on Haunted Hill," director William Malone proved that, as much of a failure he was at directing actors, he was a true talent with filming unsettling scenes of horror.
		The same could be said about his latest picture, "FearDotCom," which is somewhat of a mess when it comes to the characters and writing, but is a better movie in every respect.
		It is amazing in today's harsh rating restrictions that the MPAA has given "FearDotCom" an R. The film does not have an overabundance of gore, but it is unmerciless in its depiction of violence and torture.
	themovieboy.com /reviews/f/02_feardotcom.htm (675 words)

	Feardotcom - Really Scary Movie Reviews
		That it was actually produced, and with a $40 million budget, is a far more horrifying mystery than anything in the movie itself.
		FearDotCom was written by Josephine Coyle from a story by producer Moshe Diamant.
		As terrible as the script is, there is some wonderful, admirable work to be found in this mess of a movie.
	www.reallyscary.com /reviewsfeardotcom.asp (856 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'Feardotcom': Site better left unseen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Feardotcom is the cinematic equivalent of spam in your e-mail inbox.
		Feardotcom was shot in Luxembourg, doubling as New York City, and features European bit players mangling American accents (Rea's faux-menacing lilt is particularly laughable).
		The screenplay, too, seems like a bad translation from another language: In one scene, a character fondly recalls her hemophiliac daughter frolicking at the rusty scrap heap known as the neighborhood's abandoned power plant.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2002-08-29-feardotcom_x.htm (298 words)

	Classic-Horror Review of FearDotCom (2002)
		Right at their first hug is sewn into the middle of the movie an obnoxious and obvious song score follows it, and this song plays every time the two are thinking of each other.
		First off, victims die with a strange expression on their face (like in Ring, only in FearDotCom the difference is bloody noses and eyeballs), and secondly anybody who views the site dies two day later to the minute (in Ring people died exactly seven days after a phone call due to watching a cursed tape).
		FearDotCom also carries atmospheres from movies like The Cell, Seven, Dee Snider's Strangeland and even Event Horizon.
	classic-horror.com /reviews/feardotcom.shtml (1079 words)

	FearDotCom
		FearDotCom is probably the worst movie of the year thus far, a dubious distinction given some of the other junk studios released.
		There is a plot somewhere here, but it is so incoherent and so dull that there is no point in trying to follow along.
		Here's how it goes: there is a web site called feardotcom (well, actually it would be feardotcom.com but that's beside the point).
	www.haro-online.com /movies/feardotcom.html (603 words)

	Fear Dot Com
		The only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie.
		"Feardotcom" has the makings of an interesting meditation on the ethereal nature of the internet and the otherworldly energies it could channel, but it simply becomes a routine shocker.
		As directed by William Malone, the man who nailed the “condemned” sign to the front of 1999’s “The House on Haunted Hill,” “Feardotcom” is essentially a showcase for the humiliation, mutilation and sadomasochistic torture of women.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/fear_dot_com (1000 words)

	RTE.ie Entertainment - feardotcom
		So goes the plot of the supposed horror thriller that is 'feardotcom'.
		From an opening sequence that leaves you wondering when the joke will be revealed or if someone is about to step out of the shower after a bad dream, the movie progresses from pretty bad to really awful.
		Developing with an absolute lack of tension, while the audience desperately hopes for something, anything, to keep them interested, 'feardotcom' weaves its weary tale.
	www.rte.ie /arts/2003/0626/feardotcom.html (336 words)

	DVD REVIEW: "FEARDOTCOM"
		With the "dot-com" moniker now being something most companies try to avoid being associated with, it's surprising that "feardotcom" would have the audacity to use that in its title.
		You see, people die after visiting the feardotcom website (in the movie - in real life that's yet to be determined) and thus two investigator types set out to figure out why that is.
		Following in the example of real-life "dot-com" debacles, this film features a really bad idea supported by lots of money and created by people who apparently just threw together a bunch of ideas and figured they'd fly.
	www.screenit.com /dvd/2002/feardotcom.html (1007 words)

	feardotcom.about
		MDP Worldwide presents feardotcom, a horror thriller that explores the secret soul of the internet prowling the city of New York.
		Steven Dorff leads the cast as cocksure detective Mike Reilly, a man tormented by an unresolved case who is thrust into the baffling investigation of the mysterious murders linked to Feardotcom.com.
		Special effects supervisor Wiessenhaan remarks that the thriller "essentially relies on built suspense and the atmosphere inherent in film noir." Augmenting the texture of the story, Malone utilizes special effects to underscore the elements of story and character and enrich the visual canvas of the film.
	feardotcom.warnerbros.com /about.html (774 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - FearDotCom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is one of those movies where the only prevalent colors are blue, fl, and white—everything is under a perpetual cloud of darkness.
		FearDotCom: Visions of Fear: This is a brief behind-the-scenes short that includes interviews with actors Jeffrey Combs, Natascha McElhone, and Stephen Dorff, and director William Malone (Malone also helmed the terrible remake House on Haunted Hill0.
		FearDotCom is sentenced to eight years hard labor and forced to shower with I Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Soul Survivors.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/feardotcom.php (1166 words)

	FEARDOTCOM (2002) Oh, Bloody Hell! (Bad, Derivitive painful tripe!)
		In both films the visual medium (and the deaths) are the result of the ghost of a murdered young girl who is trying to be found and avenged.
		The Plot of FeardotCom basically surrounds Stephen Dorff's Detective Mike Reilly who has the dubious distinction of being partnered up with Jeffrey Combs of Reanimator fame.
		I mean, look, it's a credit to his abilities that with a script that was such a mess that even Stephen Rea and Jeffrey Combs ended up looking silly, Dorff still did okay.
	www.worldsgreatestcritic.com /feardotcom.html (1647 words)

	Variety.com - Reviews - FeardotCom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"FeardotCom" conceives of a contemporary reality in which the Internet has developed the ability to harness "psychological energy" and to use that energy to invade the lives of its innocent users.
		"FeardotCom" never quite realizes its potential to evoke the real horror of the Internet, the way in which it has, for many, come to serve as a substitute for intimacy and personal interaction.
		Unfortunately, "FeardotCom" needs more of those moments and less needlessly explicit bondage/torture sequences and dime-a-dozen shock imagery -- enough to make most viewers clamber for the "refresh" button on their Web browsers.
	www.variety.com /index.asp?layout=review&reviewid=VE1117918568&categoryid=31&cs=1 (711 words)

	FeardotCom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Malone revisits that visual approach in FeardotCom but the story is so nonsensical that the visuals only call attention to that fact that Malone is sweating to distract the audience.
		Malone would similarly like FeardotCom to be appreciated for its style but outside of the fact that his imagery is borrowed whole cloth from Bava and Argento, his film is - ironically - too tied into its own plot to ever cut loose.
		As an example of how lame-brained FeardotCom is, it asks us to believe that a young hemophiliac terrified of sharp objects (so much so that her favorite toy is a rubber ball) also happened to play at an abandoned steel mill.
	www.undertakerslounge.com /fear.htm (419 words)

	Feardotcom - Movie Review
		After the first hour of the celluloid atrocity so cleverly named FearDotCom, I awoke from a dreadful nightmare: a nightmare chock full of bad acting, goofy makeup, a ridiculous story, and blatant plot thievery from David Cronenberg flicks.
		FearDotCom is easily in the running for worst film of the year.
		Ultimately, FearDotCom is a cheap windup toy complete with snapshots of grisly, stomach-turning torture scenes, flat characters, uninventive spooks, and blatant cinematic plagiarism.
	www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/feardotcom (484 words)

	feardotcom - Movie Review - Horror Express.com
		I'm as surprised as you are, but FEARDOTCOM is a truly solid horror film, which I can strongly recommend.
		The film has managed to land in their bottom 100, despite many of the viewers admitting they didn't sit through the whole film.
		FEARDOTCOM is not a complete winner of course.
	www.horrorexpress.com /filmreview.php?id=126 (1151 words)

	Amazon.com: Fear Dot Com (Ws Dub Sub Dol): DVD: William Malone,Stephen Dorff,Natascha McElhone,Stephen Rea,Udo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Directed by William Malone (who made the lousy remake of "House on Haunted Hill"), "Feardotcom" is a horror film so loaded with clichs; so weighed down with bad acting, a confusing script, plodding pacing, and continuity errors in the thousands that surviving the experience says something important about your mental and physical fortitude.
		Whatever the case, he should have passed on "Feardotcom." The damage to his career may well be irreparable.
		"Feardotcom" is chock full of dark buildings, strobe light effects, and the sort of cheap shocks routinely employed by your local haunted house around Halloween.
	www.amazon.com /Fear-Dot-Com-Dub-Dol/dp/B00007G1ZB (2676 words)

	DVD Review: Feardotcom
		In 1989, director William Malone helmed a few episodes of the "Tales From the Crypt" series, which was produced by director Robert Zemeckis and producer Joel Silver ("The Matrix").
		VIDEO: "Feardotcom" is presented by Warner Brothers in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen.
		SOUND: "Feardotcom" is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1 by Warner Brothers.
	www.currentfilm.com /dvdreviews4/feardotcomdvd.html (647 words)

	Review: feardotcom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		With elements of the supernatural, a mystery thriller and commentary on the how the internet creates a link between content and surfer, albeit a murderous one, FearDotCom had the potential to easily be the smart creepy flick of the season.
		In this version of New York City, the rainiest city on the planet, rent seems to be cheap because everyone lives in decrepit loft style commercial buildings and saves on lighting (at least the film can claim consistency in its dark, wet presentation).
		While The Ring creates the tense counting down aspect in which the protagonists search for answers to a mysterious supernatural tape before dying themselves, Pulse introduces the concept of the internet as a living entity where by connecting, you create a being that you are also a part of.
	www.pop.com /features?feature_id=2382762 (716 words)

	Feardotcom [2003] reviews available at Amazon UK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Feardotcom [2003] reviews available at Amazon UK Shops Home
		The scene that crystallized "feardotcom" for me came when the two main characters were watching a video tape in which a kid was talking in German.
		At that point I realized that this 2002 horror film was a lot more interesting when you did not understand what was being said, because then instead of trying to understand what was going on you could look at the striking visual images that infest "feardotcom" and make up your own horror story.
	www.shoptour.co.uk /amazon/asinsearch_B0000A1M54.html (266 words)

	DVD.net : FearDotCom - DVD Review
		FearDotCom is the spine-tingling story of a flash enabled website that never finishes loading for users on dialup access.
		But this wasn't, so we have to contend with a story about a haunted mysterious website, a psycho who likes to stream murders onto the Internet and a ghost in the machine travelling the wires of the world wide wank looking for revenge and porn-free warez sites.
		But whereas Se7en successfully combined visual style, an intelligent and coherent storyline and great performances, FearDotCom suffers from OTT reliance on dark visuals for atmosphere, scripting assembled on the loo and performances which are not going to earn the actors any respect.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=2768 (1419 words)

	DVD Review: FearDotCom (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		FearDotCom is the story of a website that kills you two days after viewing it.
		The script also has a lot of what's called "The Riker Response." On Star Trek, whenever Captain Picard would ask his second in command what was happening on a planet, Riker would respond with, "You better come down and see for yourself." It's essentially a non-response and FearDotCom is filled with them.
		There's a deleted scene without music, and if it was deleted from FearDotCom, then you'd rightfully guess that it's pretty bad.
	www.lightsoutfilms.com /dvd_feardotcom.html (751 words)

	feardotcom London Movie Review
		Amazingly inept “horror” movie in which the acting, script and plot are all ten times more horrific than anything else in the film.
		Stephen Dorff and Natascha McElhone play two entirely forgettable characters who stumble upon a website called feardotcom, which kills people in nasty Ebola virus fashion (blood spurting from eyes etc) 48 hours after they log on.
		However, apart from the dodgy acting, the only amusement comes in seeing all the ways they’ve disguised the height difference between the two leads.
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /review_1700.html (272 words)

	FearDotCom : filmcritic.com Movie Review
		The whole mess is a painfully dull ripoff of much better films – namely Poltergeist, Videodrome, and 8MM (okay, so that one's not much better).
		Heading into this flick, I knew that there was an inherent risk in reviewing a film starring Stephen Dorff – whose career careens from solid roles in movies like Cecil B. DeMented and I Shot Andy Warhol to complete trash such as S.F.W. and Deuces Wild.
		Alas, the only real mysteries here are why someone would use such a stupid domain name like FearDotCom.com and how the hands on your watch tick more slowly during this film than during the rest of your life.
	www.filmcritic.com /misc/emporium.nsf/84dbbfa4d710144986256c290016f76e/b2c096ae081b4a5388256c24007b05b4?OpenDocument (584 words)

	Phorum :: Bad Movies :: FearDotCom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It's also one reason why I loathed the movie 'Bloodsucking Freaks.' One thing I will compliment FearDotCom on is the cinematagraphy.
		There were some really interesting and eye-catching visuals (at least from the part I got through).
		A group of people are murdered, and the only connection between the victims is that they visited a particular snuff website, FearDotCom.
	www.badmovies.org /bbs/read.php?2,30376 (334 words)

	FeardotCom (2002)
		The web site is haunted by the spirit of a former victim of the Doctor who in turns is killing users logging in to watch the man in action.
		In his first directorial outing since the reasonably entertaining The House on Haunted Hill remake, William Malone goes completely off-the-rails and throws everything but the kitchen sink in front of the camera to try and patch together a film.
		Final Verdict: FeardotCom is one of the messiest films I think I've ever seen.
	www.popcornpictures.co.uk /ffilms/feardotcom.shtml (576 words)

	BBC Stoke & Staffordshire Films - FearDotCom Review
		Picking up "The Ring"-inspired trend for techno-horror, "FearDotCom" features a snuff website (moronically entitled feardotcom.com) where a mad doctor named Alistair Pratt (Stephen Rea), ahem, slices up naked ladies for his ever growing list of online subscribers.
		Stumbling across the site are a police detective (Stephen Dorff) and a Department of Health official (Natascha McElhone), who have linked it not only to the bodies of the doctor's various victims, but also to a series of supernatural incidents across the city.
		Director William Malone is obviously a believer in the 'everything but the kitchen sink' style of filmmaking, since "FearDotCom" comes complete with a slasher, a vengeful ghost, an internet snuff site, and a "Ring"-style curse.
	www.bbc.co.uk /stoke/films/reviews/a_f/feardotcom.shtml (442 words)

	Evil stalks the Web in gory, inept 'FearDotCom'
		This is how it works with "FearDotCom." As the people onscreen get scared to death, the people in the audience get bored to death.
		At first the detective on the case (Stephen Dorff) and a Department of Health researcher (Natascha McElhone) believe that they're looking at an outbreak of Ebola fever, but no. The victims are having strokes from terror, and the terror is coming as a result of browsing around on a Web site called.
		Given the movie's silly premise and repellent preoccupations, "FearDotCom" was never going to be a good movie, but the director does his part to make matters worse.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/08/30/DD17200.DTL&type=movies (540 words)

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